CM/Res. 739 (XXXIII) Rev. 1
RESOLUTION ON CIVIL AVIATION IN AFRICA
The Council of Ministers of the organization of African Unity meeting in its Thirty- third Ordinary Session in Monrovia, Liberia, from 6 to 20 July 1979;
Considering the African Declaration on Co-operation, Development and Economic Independence adopted by the Tenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU at Addis Ababa in May 1973;
Considering further the importance of air transport as an essential tool for accelerating the economic and social development of African countries;
Aware of the fact that, at its Fifth and Sixth Plenary Session if Lome, Togo in May 1976 and in Bamako, Mali in May 1979, respectively AFCAC adopted an over-all recommendation on the policy of African States with regard to bilateral air transport agreements;
Recognising that AFRAA, has agreed, in principle, to recommend to African Governments the exchange of traffic rights liberally among themselves, particularly in the Rights of the Fifth Freedom;
Convinced that present aeronautical diplomacy at the world level calls for governmental action on tariff matters in the context of bilateral air transport agreements;
Conscious of the desire of African States to negotiate tariffs on a multilateral basis;
Bearing in mind that the present IATA tariff negotiating machinery on multilateral basis is ineffective and under attack by some influential decision centres;
Mindful of the global strategy concerning the implementation of the programme for the Transport and communications Decade in Africa;
TAKES NOTE of Resolutions ECA/UNCTAD/Res.79/6 and ECA UNCTAD/ Res. 79/7 adopted by the Conference of African Ministers of Transport, Communications and Planning held in Addis Ababa from 9 to 12 May 1979 an d presented in Vol. 1 of the Global Strategy and Plan of Action for the United Nations Transport and communications Decade in Africa:
CALLS UPON all Member States to co-operate fully to ensure the implementation of these resolutions;
REQUESTS AFCAC to take the necessary action, in collaboration with AFRAA, ECA an OAU to organize and establish an African Air Tariff Conference as a permanent institution responsible for discussing and deciding on air tariffs to be applied by African Airlines Companies;
REQUESTS member States of the Organization of African Unity to authorize their National Airlines Companies to participate effectively in all the activities of African Air Tariff Conference;
REQUESTS the OAU Secretary-General in collaboration with the ECA Executive Secretary to report regularly to the Council of Ministers on the implementation of this resolution.